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Kalinga Prize Recipients: Bertrand Russell, Louis de Broglie, Margaret Mead, Fred Hoyle, George Gamow, David Attenborough, David Suzuki
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15.
ISBN 9781155365404
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Chapters: Bertrand Russell, Louis de Broglie, Margaret Mead, Fred Hoyle, George Gamow, David Attenborough, David Suzuki, Julian Huxley, Peter Medawar, Arthur C. Clarke, Karl Von Frisch, Pervez Hoodbhoy, E. B. Ford, Philip Abelson, Alexander Oparin, Gavin de Beer, Piero Angela, Warren Weaver, George Porter, Kalinga Prize, Nigel Calder, Ennio Candotti, Sergei Kapitsa, Yves Coppens, Dennis Flanagan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 218. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (19351942), the first Director of UNESCO, and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund. Huxley was well-known for his presentation of science in books and articles, and on radio and television. He was awarded UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science in 1953, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956, and the DarwinWallace Medal of the Linnaean Society in 1958. He was also knighted in that same year, 1958, a hundred years after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace announced the theory of evolution by natural selection. In 1959 he received a Special Award of the Lasker Foundation in the category Planned Parenthood World Population. Huxley was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society, and its President from 19591962. Huxley came from the distinguished Huxley family. His brother was the writer Aldous Huxley, and his half-brother a fellow biologist and Nobel laureate, Andrew Huxley; his father was writer and editor Leonard Huxley; and his paternal grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, a friend a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=145837
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Kalinga Prize Recipients: Bertrand Russell, Louis de Broglie, Margaret Mead, Fred Hoyle, George Gamow, David Attenborough, David Suzuki
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